Controlling device for furniture-drawers.



No. 674,622. Patented May 2|, I90l. l. N. WEITZEL. CONTROLLING DEVICE FOR FURNITURE DRAWERS.

(Application filed Feb. 15, 1901.) (No Model.)

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ISAAC NORD WEITZEL, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

CONTROLLING DEVICE FOR FURNlTURE-DRAWERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 674,622, dated May 21, 1901. Application filed February 15, 1901. Serial No. 47,504.. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ISAAC NORD WEITZEL, of Rochester, in the countyof Monroe and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Controlling Devices for Furniture-Drawers, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification andshown in the accompanying drawings.

My invention is a new article of commerce, the same being a device consisting of coacting parts constituting a guide or controller for the drawer of a bureau, dresser, sideboard, stand, or other similar article of furniture. This device is adapted to be put in position under the drawer, one of the main parts being formed to be secured to the frame of the furniture-body and another part to be attached to the drawer, these parts together acting to guide or control the rear or inner end of the latter and hold the drawer horizontally when drawn out and to prevent it from cramping or binding in the frame when moved forward orbackward therein. This device consists of a plain straight metal bar or rod designed to be secured horizontally beneath the middle line of the drawer and a rider having a pair of rollers adapted to be secured to the bottom of the drawer at its rear end in position to engage the bar or rod and so hold said rear end of the drawer to glide evenly along the same.

The invention consists in other features and combinations of parts, all hereinafter fully described, and more particularlypointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of a drawer and associated parts with my improved device in place, parts being broken away. Fig. 2 is a plan of the guidebar and its end connections, parts being broken out. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section of the parts, taken on the dotted line 3 3 in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a side view of the parts partly broken away and sectioned on the dotted line 4 4 in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a view from beneath the drawer, further showing the relation between the engaging parts. Fig. 6 is a vertical cross-section of parts on the dotted line 6 6 in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is'a view in front,

further showing the forward end connection of the guide-bar, the drawer being transversely sectioned, as on the dotted line 3 3 in Fig. 1. Figs. 1 and 3 are drawn to a scale about one-fourth full size, Fig. 4 to a scale about one-half full size, and the remaining figures to a scale about full size.

In the drawings, A is the frame of an article of furniture, and B a drawer.

O is the bar of my improved device, it being preferably a straight flat strip of metal placed horizontally beneath the middle line of the drawer, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 4. The rear end of this bar is held in an eye-screw a, Figs. 2 and 4, threaded in the rear member I) of the frame, its forward end being engaged by a holder 0, inserted in a forward member d of the frame.

D, Figs. 3 to 6, is a rider to traverse the bar 0 when the drawer is moved, secured to the under surface of the bottom of the drawer, at or near the rear side of the latter, having downwardly-projecting vertical studs 8 e. Upon each stud is placed a flanged wheel or rollerf, as shown, the rollers beingin position to have their faces meet the respective edges of the guide-bar, with the flanges g g of the rollers beneath said bar and partially surrounding it, as clearly shown in the figures.

The drawer rests at its sides upon horizontal strips h 71., Figs. 1', 3, and 4:, forming parts of the frame A, and on account of the guide-bar and the rider therefor the rear end of the drawer is in-all positions of the latter held steadily to place, so that it cannot turn laterally and catch or cramp in its bearings in the frame when moved therein. Also, being controlled at its rear end to move in a right line, the drawercannot drop or sag at its forward end when drawn outward from the frame, this being prevented by the flanges g of the rollers meeting the under surface of the bar.

These devices (each comprising a bar 0, rider or saddle D, eye-screw a, and holdingscrew 0) are manufactured and sold to the trade as new articles of commerce, to be applied by the purchasers to'furniture, either new or old, of the class comprising drawers. The bars when manufactured are given surplus lengths, to be cut to proper lengths when applied in given cases. The inner end of each bar after being cut to the proper length is passed downward through the eye-screw (first inserted in the frame A) and bent back beneath said screw, as clearly shown in Fig.

4. In bending the end of the bar to place space is left, as shown, above the inturned end to allow room for the flanges g of the rollers to pass in when the drawer is pressed fully back to place. When the bar is bent in the eye-screw, it is left of such length that its forward rounded end will lap upon the front member 61 of the frame, Figs. 1 and 2, sufficiently to receive through it the fastening-screw c.

To permit the drawer being drawn wholly out from the frame or furniture body, the front end of the guide-bar O is made to rest upon a narrow spacer i, Figs. 2 and 7, clear from the member 61 of the frame, which allows the fiangesg of the rollers to pass out from in under said bar, as shown.

said parts to place, substantially as shown.

and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 12th day of February, 1901, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ISAAC NORI) WEITZEL.

Witnesses:

ENos B. WHITMORE, M. B. SMITH. 

